The U.S. individual health insurance market currently totals about 19 million people. Because the Obama administration's regulations on grandfathering existing plans were so stringent about 85% of those, 16 million, are not grandfathered and must comply with Obamacare at their next renewal. The rules are very complex. For example, if you had an individual plan in March of 2010 when the law was passed and you only increased the deductible from $1,000 to $1,500 in the years since, your plan has lost its grandfather status and it will no longer be available to you when it would have renewed in 2014.

These 16 million people are now receiving letters from their carriers saying they are losing their current coverage and must re-enroll in order to avoid a break in coverage and comply with the new health law's benefit mandates––the vast majority by January 1. Most of these will be seeing some pretty big rate increases.

Kaiser Health News called up a few insurers around the country and found that hundreds of thousands of Americans have already received cancellation notices.

"[T]he cancellation notices, which began arriving in August, have shocked many consumers in light of President Barack Obama’s promise that people could keep their plans if they liked them," according to Kaiser Health News reporters Anna Gorman and Julie Appleby.

"Florida Blue, for example, is terminating about 300,000 policies, about 80 percent of its individual policies in the state. Kaiser Permanente in California has sent notices to 160,000 people – about half of its individual business in the state. Insurer Highmark in Pittsburgh is dropping about 20 percent of its individual market customers, while Independence Blue Cross, the major insurer in Philadelphia, is dropping about 45 percent," Kaiser reports. "Blue Shield of California sent roughly 119,000 cancellation notices out in mid-September, about 60 percent of its individual business. About two-thirds of those policyholders will see rate increases in their new policies, said spokesman Steve Shivinsky."

Not about me you stupid Quack - about the millions and millions of people that communist Kenyan terrorist worthless scumbag slug is hurting

How heroic of you to do it for the millions and millions of "parasites" you condemn daily.

Hopefully one day your pictures of Obama walking a dog will change their fortunes. I mean, you couldn't be posting non-stop for years on end about one person because of OCD, that would be too obsessive. Nor responding any time his name is mentioned as if it's a compulsion. Nevermind the personal info you leaked about "out working everyone", that doesn't sound OCD either. People with OCD often don't go on and on about their obsession unlike you who posts non-stop about Obama........................................

How heroic of you to do it for the millions and millions of "parasites" you condemn daily.

Hopefully one day your pictures of Obama walking a dog will change their fortunes. I mean, you couldn't be posting non-stop for years on end about one person because of OCD, that would be too obsessive. Nor responding any time his name is mentioned as if it's a compulsion. Nevermind the personal info you leaked about "out working everyone", that doesn't sound OCD either. People with OCD often don't go on and on about their obsession unlike you who posts non-stop about Obama........................................

Would you like me to go on about your obvious mental health issue?

Refute the article ot STFU =- Obama is a terrorist and skell. You worship this fagget - deal with it

Exactly. The way to get out of debt is to spend much more money than you were when you got into debt. And if you don't agree with this, you are a racist. You a racist that why you hate the Kenyan Turd.

Exactly. The way to get out of debt is to spend much more money than you were when you got into debt. And if you don't agree with this, you are a racist. You a racist that why you hate the Kenyan Turd.

How can you sit and post this shit all day? day after day. I enjoy debate but you just copy and paste and rant non-stop.

There is no debate, we warned libs back before he was elected that he was a disaster and since then it's been one failure after another since the "cash for clunkers" yet you still hold on to this fallacy that this clown is the be all to end all. This administration and left in general are so predictable it isn't even funny anymore. They say the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result but the results always remain the same. Well, time after time the left keep doing the same thing and the same results are always destruction and failures. This is fact!